[Clipart] RE: Requests wiki page

[momo]

There is another great source of cliparts that we can reuse/convert:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Public_domain

All the listed categories contain images and illustrations that are in the 
PD. Of course they are mainly photos that cannot (or should not) be 
vectorized, but there are also tons of illustrations, maps, graphics that 
can be redrawn in vectors, exported as SVG and added to OpenClipart. Also, 
we can then resubmit these illustrations to wikimedia commons so they will 
have the SVGs!

What do you all think?

Molumen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Phillips" <jon at rejon.org>
To: <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Clipart] RE: Requests wiki page


> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 01:11 -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:51 +0200, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
>> > Jon Phillips wrote:
>> > > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 09:43 -0600, Gerald Ganson wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> 1: Tauntaun(!) clipart
>> > >>
>> > >> This is a StarWars animal character, and I wonder if we can place an
>> > >> image of one into the public domain ? Any thoughts on this concept ?
>> > >
>> > > Hmmm...this is a good question...I don't think we should include it, 
>> > > but
>> > > then how could a distro include a picture of an ipod to use when one 
>> > > is
>> > > loaded.
>> >
>> > Look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Taun_taun.png
>> >
>> > Author Lucas, Jr.; George W., McQuarrie; Ralph, Tippett; Philip
>> > Permission United States patent illustration - public domain
>> >
>> > I would venture to say we are free to draw such animals, even with a
>> > traced version (attached)
>>
>> Whoooooaaaaa...this breaks open an even large issue....Are all US patent
>> illustrations public domain???? This would be huge!
>>
>> Yes, in light of this illustration, I think its fine to create something
>> similar to this...this is arguable because there is a PD version of
>> it...
>>
>> Jon
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:PD-US-patent
>
> Whoa!!!! What do you all think? We are not copyrighting the image, but
> re-releasing it back into the PD....this is a great question for lawyers
> (which I will do in the morning).
>
> Jon
>
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